Re: [Cz-L] Musikverein -pps

Dear Irene,

Unfortunately I had no note of where Erica found the von Rezzori quote. She
was a scientist and had an extensive collection of Czernowitz books, and I
was sure this would have been an actual quotation which she found somewhere.

I have been leafing through the pages of "The Snows of Yesteryear" and
"Memoirs of an Antisemite", but found nothing remotely helpful.

Then this morning I suddenly stumbled on it!

The quote is from an article on Huberman which was written as the "liner
notes" for a CD of a Huberman recital in New York. This is the beginning of
the article:

*****

Huberman in Recital: New York Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Learn from the past, enjoy the present, work for the future. -Bronislaw
Huberman

A vital culture once thrived in middle Europe. Its multi-lingual citizens
had endured life under Russian Tsars, Austrian and German emperors, Turkish
sultans, and their own equally horrid Nationalists. The writer Gregor von
Rezzori came from Czernowitz, Austria, or Cernauti under Romania, then
Cernovtsy in the Soviet Union and now part of an independent Ukraine. The
languages used locally included German, Romanian, the tongue of the Huzuls,
Armenian, Yiddish, Ladino, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Turkish, Polish, and Gypsy
dialects. Rezzori told this writer about a Huberman recital in his native
city:

"The Concert Hall had rather large entrance doors on the sides which led out
onto the street. For Huberman's concert there came a fantastically snobbish
public in white gloves made up of officers and functionaries. They scarcely
clapped with their white gloved hands. After the first part, the doors swung
open and they swarmed out for cigarettes. The hall filled again for the
second half and Huberman played to a storm of applause; the Jews loitering
outside had come in!"

*****

This is the link to the full article:

http://www.arbiterrecords.com/notes/105notes.html

It is interesting that the author (Allan Evans, the producer of the CD)
should have chosen to feature Czernowitz to start his article on Huberman.
Interesting also that he should have known von Rezzori.

This is the CD:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/huberman-in-recital-new-york-1936-44-w72671

Best regards,

David

----- Original Message -----
From: "Irene Fishler" <irenef_at_netvision.net.il>
To: "'Bernice Goldsmith'" <bernice_at_encs.concordia.ca>
Cc: "'CZERNOWITZ-L'" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 12:52 PM
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Musikverein -pps

>
> Thank you , Bernice !
> And, welcome to the Cz.-List !
>
> Yes, I wish to post to the list the English version of the Rubinstein
> story
> about his concert in 1911-1912.
> It is much re-printed and retold in German anthologies , memorial books,
> etc.
> But, Arthur Rubinstein wrote it in English!
>
> I scanned those pages many years ago , and cropped the images, so I do not
> know the page-numbers.
>
> Rezzori ,( in David Glynn's citation, a translation from German) tells the
> story about Bronislaw Huberman's concert in the 1930's.
>
> I wish to know when did this concert take place and in which of his
> (Tschernopol ?) books Rezzori wrote about it.
>
> May be this is only a Czernowitzer "urban legend"?
>
> Regards,
> Irene, from Haifa

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